Oxford University Press
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Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend
$40.99 Add to cartA definitive new account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood’s most unforgettable, influential stars.
Archie Leach was a poorly educated, working-class boy from a troubled family- Series: Cultural Biographies
- Author: Glancy, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0190053135
- Language: English
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Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Yet even after the Cold War, the Bomb is still the greatest threat fa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Siracusa, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198860536
- Language: English
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Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing h… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Green, Nile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190917237
- Language: English
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The Spartans
$15.99 Add to cartThe image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek l… [more below]
- Author: Bayliss, Andrew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0198853084
- Language: English
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The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West
$34.99 Add to cartA new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace–Renaissance Italy
The period between 1492–resonant for a number of reasons–and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle o- Author: Fletcher, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0190908491
- Language: English
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Danton’s Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck
$13.95 Add to cartThis collection of B?hner’s three theatrical works includes Danton’s Death, his great play about the French Revolution, Leonce and Lena, his “black” romantic comedy and Woyzeck, the unfinished work on… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: B?chner, Georg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540357
- Language: English
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Geophysics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartGeophysics is the physics of the Earth. Central to the Earth Sciences today, it encompasses areas such as seismology, volcanism, plate tectonics, gravitational anomalies, and the Earth’s magnetic fiel… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lowrie, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198792956
- Language: English
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Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartUp to the 1960s, psychology was deeply under the influence of behaviourism, which focused on stimuli and responses, and regarded consideration of what may happen in the mind as unapproachable scientif… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Passingham, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198786220
- Language: English
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Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide, and is ranked as the world’s fifth largest religion. However, events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Nesbitt, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198745575
- Language: English
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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
$21.99 Add to cartYoga is so prevalent in the modern world–practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls–that we take its presence, and its meaning, for… [more below]
- Author: Singleton, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0195395344
- Language: English
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The Ancient Near East
$12.99 Add to cartThe ancient Near East is known as the “cradle of civilization”–and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinarily rich and successful culture. Indeed, it was a time… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Podany, Amanda H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 18 2013
- ISBN10: 0195377990
- Language: English
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1979 Book of Common Prayer Economy Edition
$21.99 Add to cartThe Oxford Book of Common Prayer, Economy Edition is a beautifully constructed and reasonably-priced prayer book, making it a perfect choice for wide distribution in schools and for use as a pew praye… [more below]
- Author: Episcopal Church
- Binding:
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: February 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0195287185
- Language: English
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Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
$28.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States.
The half century extending from the imperial crisis- Author: Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0197546919
- Language: English
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Art History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartArt history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction, Dana Arnold presents an introduction to the issues, … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Arnold, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0198831803
- Language: English
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Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
$18.95 Add to cartThe questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Should people who refuse to be vaccinated be treated for COVID-19, even if that displaces vaccinated patients with other serious conditions? Wha… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Steinbock, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0197657966
- Language: English
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The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively ch… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Holt, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0190605421
- Language: English
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Biodiversity Conservation: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Extinction is a natural process. In geological time there have been several periods of mass extinction. One of these periods is unfolding right no- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: MacDonald, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0199592276
- Language: English
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Compact Oxford Russian Dictionary
$18.95 Read moreThe Compact Oxford Russian Dictionary offers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary Russian and English. It covers the words you need to know for everday use, carefull… [more below]
- Author: Oxford Languages
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: June 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0199576173
- Language: English
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
$12.95 Add to cartRousseau’s last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tries to come to terms with his isolation and to find happiness in solitude and na… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0199563276
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$12.95 Add to cartFederico Garc? Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for several collections of poems published both in his short lifetim… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lorca, Federico Garc?a
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199556016
- Language: English
